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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
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| Hexes, Hashtags, and Hypersigils: Happy Halloween |
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by Woody Evans
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| Maybe you or some of your friends, like mine, are feeling worn down by this scary year and are horrified by the lack of respect for critical media inquiry, for consensus-building and peer review. The moorings have shifted. The commonweal broke a spoke. The geese are flying backward, and the bats are hunting horses. But don't worry, trick-or-treaters, it gets worse … |
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| Credo's 'Spooky Reference' |
| "Digging up hard facts on mythical monsters can be tricky ..." |
| 'All the Candy That’s Sold During Halloween Week …' |
| All of the candy sold during Halloween week would "be as large as six Titanics and weigh 300,000 tons." |
| 'New Online: Scary Stories and More' |
| "[T]he Library of Congress has released a new web guide to Halloween resources at the Library." |
| 'A Ghostly Image: Spirit Photographs' |
| "Claims of capturing a spirit with the camera lens were made as early as the 1850s, when photography was relatively new to the world." |
| 'Amazon Prime’s New Delivery Service Is Low-Key Terrifying' |
| Amazon Key "allows Amazon couriers to open your door via a smart lock and leave your package inside your home." |
| 'Phantoms Among the Folios: A Guide to Haunted Libraries' |
| "[G]hostly phenomena--whatever the cause--can manifest in well-lit, modern offices as well as crumbling Carnegies." |
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| What's New From Pew Research Center |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| NewsBreaks often covers the latest surveys and reports from Pew Research Center, "a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world." Its website has eight topic sections, each of which showcases the latest research, which is collected in reports, fact sheets, or other formats that extrapolate respondents' answers to cover the entire U.S. population. ... Here's a roundup of the latest news from each section. |
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